Funding: EU FP6 ICT
Partners : CETIC, University of Namur, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Fraunhofer IESE, Zea Partners, MERIT-Maastricht-, Adacore, PEPITe
Duration: October 2006 - September 2009
Budget: 2 million euros
The results of the QUALOSS project directly address the strategic objective 2.5.5 of providing methodologies to use open source software into industrial development, to enable its benchmarking, and to support its development and evolution.

Funding: EU ITEA Project
Partners: Philips Healthcare, Philips Applied Technologies, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ibermatica, European Software Institute, University of Zurich, University of Antwerp, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Research Center, Tampere University of Technology, University of Helsinki, Calassa Labs, Bertin Technologies, Surlog, Softeam
Duration: September 2005 - August 2008
Budget: 17.7 million euros
The SERIOUS project aimed at the breakthrough of turning the current practice of handcrafted evolution to methodologically sound techniques supported by industry-adoptable tools, including corresponding development processes for the development of operational software-intensive systems.

National projects

Denmark

Funding: NABIIT, research council for nano-, bio- and information technologies, Danish government
Duration: January 2006 - December 2009
Abstract: Software products such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, game engines, and simulation software, are often built around a software kernel that encapsulates and provides core functionality. Specific software products are then developed by deploying and adapting this kernel, and can be further configured and customised. This project aims to develop methods and technologies for the design and implementation of evolvable software products based on software kernels. The project investigates software engineering techniques to achieve reliable and evolvable software products, and explores how software is created and maintained on a long term basis.

Funding: BelSPo Interuniversity Attraction Pole
Duration: January 2008 - December 2012
This project combines the leading Belgian research teams in software engineering, with recognised scientific excellence in model-driven engineering (MDE), software evolution, formal modelling and verification (FMV) and aspect-oriented software development (AOSD). The project aims to advance the state of the art in each of these domains. The long term objective of our network is to strengthen existing collaborations and forge new links between those teams, and to leverage and disseminate our research expertise in this domain at a European level.

Italy

Funding: Ministero dell'Universita della Ricerca, Programmi di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN), Grant number 2006098097
Duration: February 2007 - February 2009
Budget: 271430 euros
Partners: Prof. A. De Lucia, University of Salerno; University of Bari; University of Sannio; University of Turin
The objective of this project is to facilitate the selection and the adoption of reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools in industry. To pursue such an objective, the project aims at empirically evaluating reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools that can potentially fulfill industry needs. The empirical evaluation will be conducted in three different stages: a first stages aiming at surveying the state of the art and of the practice; a second stage aiming at assessing the different techniques in a controlled environment; and a third stage, in which techniques will be further experimented in industry with some case studies.

Germany

ArQuE: Architecture-centric Quality Engineering

Funding: German Ministry of Education and Research
Partners: Fraunhofer IESE, University of Bremen, Alcatel-Lucent, Buren&Partner, Testo, Tynos, Wikon
Duration: May 2006 - April 2009
Budget: 1.6 million euros
ArQuE enables goal-oriented architecture analyses in an effort-efficient manner to achieve strategic innovations in the lifecycle of a software system or product line.